1. Then Tobias called the Angel to him, whom he indeed considered to be a man, and he said to him: "Brother Azariah, I implore you to listen to my words:
2. If I should give myself to be your servant, I would not be equally worthy of your providence.
3. Even so, I beg you to take with you beasts or even servants, and to go to Gabael in Rages, the city of the Medes, and restore to him his handwritten note, and receive from him the money, and petition him to come to my wedding celebration.
4. For you know that my father numbers the days. And if I delay one day more, his soul will be afflicted.